Parenting Styles In Early Childhood

Future Research In future studies, researchers could put less emphasis on what parenting style is the best style. The preferred style requires resources that families from lower SES cannot afford or do not have access to. Research should not only focus on Caucasian or Europeans families as the middle-class, but also do studies on middle-class families that are outside of the typical Caucasian or European families. There are many findings on parental involvement throughout high school and in their child’s journey to go on to higher education, but there seemed to be a lack of research done on the parent’s involvement throughout early childhood education. Because children develop very quickly in early childhood, it would be very beneficial …show more content…
Evident factors which may influence parents’ beliefs include the child’s current age and gender, also the parental level of education (Graf et al., 2014; Harding et al., 2016; Mosco & Atzaba-Poria, 2016). In the study which done by Mosco and Atzaba-Poria (2016), these fathers who had a higher level of contact with Israeli Jewish culture didn’t show preference in choosing individualistic socialization goals. This provides researchers the hypothesis that these differences among the maternal socialization goals and the paternal socialization goals could be the result of unnoticed cultural heritage. The domain of future research could be to investigate and elaborate the relation between specific in-group phenomenon and related cultural context, also verify whether those findings could be generalized to other racial/ethnic …show more content…
Current researches limited as they examined specific cultures and certain ages only. The relationships between childhood obesity and environment factors should be extended to include all ages. Longitudinal future research is suggested to examine the causes in depth. Although a significant amount of research has been done in this field, it is very scattered and there are various gaps. It is true when study how children’s disabilities affect parents’ parenting technique, individual researchers examined certain cultures, also children in different age groups. However, none of these studies are longitudinal and do not examine how these differences vary at different ages. Most of these researches have opted for interview methods along with some questionnaires that are all based on self-evaluation. There may have been some biases while